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Pamela Good stated she has acknowledged “for the primary time” that she is answerable for her husband’s homicide after many years of deflecting blame with “warped logic.”
“I discovered myself answerable for one thing I desperately did not need to be answerable for, my husband’s homicide,” Good stated in a videotaped message from jail obtained by Fox Information Digital.
This revelation, she stated, got here in a jail writing class, the place her teacher pushed the group to “dig deeper … in my very own thoughts, in my very own coronary heart.”
Good, now 56, has spent practically 34 years behind bars as a part of a life sentence with out parole for her function in Gregory Good’s 1990 homicide. The killing was carried out by 4 youngsters, led by one boy she was having an affair with.
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On this 1991 file photograph Pamela Good testifies in Rockingham County Superior Courtroom in Exeter, N.H. (The Related Press)
In Could 1990, Billy Flynn, who was 16 on the time, fired a shot via Gregory Good’s head as Patrick Randall, then 17, held a knife to his throat.
Pamela Good, who was 22 on the time and Flynn’s program teacher in a Hampton, New Hampshire, highschool, was sneaking round with Flynn.
Throughout the trial, Flynn testified that Pamela threatened to interrupt up with him if he did not kill her husband.
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Flynn, Randall and two different youngsters on the time, who had been the getaway drivers, served their sentences and have since been freed.
“It has taken me many years to come back to a spot the place I can extra totally perceive and settle for duty for my inexcusable actions and behaviors,” Pamela wrote in a March letter to New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, the place she pleads for a pardon.
Pamela Good acknowledged duty for her husband’s homicide in her newest plea for a pardon. (AP Photograph/Jon Pierre Lasseigne, File)
She stated within the letter that she lied to herself and “rationalized that, as a result of I wasn’t there the evening Gregg was murdered, as a result of I did not pull the set off, I wasn’t accountable.”
“I turned comfy in my warped logic as a result of I did not need to face the truth that Gregg’s homicide was nobody’s fault however my very own,” Pamela wrote.
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Within the videotaped assertion from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York, the place she is serving time, she used this “warped” rationalization as a “coping mechanism as a result of the reality of being so accountable was very troublesome for me.”
Gregg’s cousin, Val Fryatt, did not purchase the prolonged pauses and Pamela’s feelings within the 4.5-minute video, telling the Related Press that she “danced round it … with out admitting the information round what made her ‘totally accountable.’”
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On this March 9, 1991, file photograph, Patrick Randall, 17, testifies in Rockingham County Superior Courtroom in Exeter, N.H. Randall held a knife to Gregory Good’s throat in Could 1990 as Billy Flynn, who was Pamela Good’s teenage lover, shot him within the head. Flynn was finally paroled; Good is serving life with out parole after being convicted of plotting the homicide. (The Related Press)
The video is a part of an 83-page petition – dated June 7 – that features a prolonged listing of educational achievements, jobs and practically 30 letters of help from fellow inmates, corrections workers, spiritual leaders and buddies.
Even Peter Stern, the Brooklyn Nets CFO, wrote a letter on her behalf.
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It is Pamela’s fourth time asking New Hampshire’s governor and the Government Council to commute her sentence.
“I don’t need to die in jail,” she wrote.
The latest try was in March 2022, when she was denied the suitable to current her case “inside minutes,” her lawyer, Mark Sisti, stated.
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The petition “illustrates overwhelming proof” of “rehabilitation, regret, self-improvement and true dedication to redemption,” Sisti wrote within the submitting. “She has matured past her years and has grown to appreciate her half within the homicide of her husband.”
Sisti informed Fox Information Digital that it is totally as much as the governor’s Government Council to listen to Pamela’s petition.
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Pamela Good will get sworn in earlier than testifying in her personal protection in Rockingham County Courtroom. (Getty Pictures)
The governor informed Fox Information Digital in an e-mail that her petition is not going to be on the agenda for at present’s assembly. The following assembly is scheduled for June 26, the Government Council stated.
Whether or not her request will likely be thought of continues to be up within the air, because the governor has been noncommittal.
In an emailed assertion to Fox Information Digital, Gov. Sununu stated, “New Hampshire’s course of for commutation or pardon requests is honest and thorough. Pamela Good will likely be given the identical alternative to petition the Council for a listening to as some other particular person.”
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She stated within the videotaped assertion that she will see the missteps she made many years in the past, together with not taking duty for her actions.
“Now that I’m older and capable of look again on issues, I can see so many errors that I made, and I can see how skewed my judgment was and immature I used to be,” Pamela stated within the video.
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“I’m such a unique individual than I used to be. I am extra considerate than earlier than. I believe issues via earlier than I make selections and fewer impulsive and simply extra accountable and mature than I used to be again then.”
Pamela is believed to be the longest serving feminine inmate within the Bedford Hills girls’s jail, the place she was despatched by the state of New Hampshire after her 1991 conviction.
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“I’m respectfully asking for the chance to come back earlier than you, the New Hampshire Government Council, and have an trustworthy dialog with you about my incarceration, my acceptance of duty and any considerations you might need, any questions,” she stated on the finish of the recorded assertion.
“If I may are available in individual or through video convention in order that we may share an trustworthy dialog, I’d be extraordinarily grateful for that.”
Chris Eberhart is against the law and US information reporter for Fox Information Digital. E mail tricks to [email protected] or on Twitter @ChrisEberhart48.
